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Billionaire hedge-fund investor David Tepper's Appaloosa Management was a buyer of technology, energy and bank shares in the fourth quarter, according to a Wednesday regulatory filing. Between the end of the third and fourth quarter, Appaloosa boosted its stake in Bank of America Corp. , upping his position by 170% to 10.8 million shares. He also increased his stake in Apple Inc. , raising that investment to 3.2 million shares and raising his stake in Micron Technology Inc. to 10.45 million shares, representing his largest holding according to WhaleWisdom.com. The hedge-fund luminary also lifted his position in Facebook Inc. by about 70% to 2.2 million shares, while adding to his holdings in the tech-heavy PowerShares QQQ Trust Series 1 to 4.3 million shares. Meanwhile, Tepper took a long position in the exchange-traded Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF , purchasing $280 million worth, though the fund also sold call options in the ETF worth $35 million. Call options give the holder the right but not the obligation to buy an asset a set price and time. Appaloosa also made bullish bets in the energy-centered Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF for $35 million. The investor was a buyer in gambling assets, with new stakes in Caesars Entertainment Corp. , about 5.86 million shares, and MGM Resorts International , where he picked up 2.3 million shares, from the end of the third quarter. Tepper notably divested his entire stake in Kinder Morgan Inc. , Chesapeake Energy Corp. , Whirlpool Corp. and General Motors , recent filings showed. Large investors are required to reveal their long equity holdings at the end of each quarter in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Shares of Kinder Morgan Inc. rose nearly 2% late Wednesday after the oil and gas infrastructure company reported fourth-quarter adjusted per-share earnings and sales above Wall Street expectations. Kinder Morgan said it lost $1.05 billion, or 47 cents a share, in the quarter, versus a net income of $170 million, or 8 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Adjusted for one-time items, Kinder Morgan earned 21 cents a share in the quarter, compared with 18 cents a share a year earlier. The company called the quarter "solid" and pinned the GAAP loss on a non-cash accounting charge related to the reduction in corporate income tax rates. "While the recently enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 will ultimately be moderately positive for KMI, the reduced corporate income tax rate causes certain deferred-tax assets to be revalued at 21 percent versus 35 percent," the company said in a statement. Kinder Morgan will take an about $$1.4 billion non-cash accounting charge for the quarter, it said. Revenue rose to $3.63 billion in the quarter, compared with $3.39 billion a year ago. Analysts polled by FactSet had expected adjusted earnings of 18 cents a share on sales of $3.55 billion for the fourth quarter. For the year, the company said it plans to declare dividend of 80 cents a share, achieve a distributable cash flow of about $4.57 billion, or $2.05 a share, and invest $2.2 billion in "growth projects". Shares of Kinder Morgan ended the regular trading day up 0.9%.

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Federal regulators eliminated a key tax benefit for some pipeline companies, a move that could force some pipelines to lower their rates and make it even more difficult for the struggling sector to raise money for new projects.

Kinder Morgan Inc.

Kinder Morgan, Inc. engages in the operation of pipelines and terminals that transport natural gas; gasoline; crude oil; carbon dioxide (CO2) and other products and stores petroleum products chemicals; and handles bulk materials like ethanol, coal, petroleum coke and steel. It operates through the following segments: Natural Gas Pipelines, CO2, Terminals, Product Pipelines and Kinder Morgan Canada. The Natural Gas Pipelines segment engages in the ownership and operation of major interstate and intrastate natural gas pipeline & storage systems, and natural gas and crude oil gathering systems and natural gas processing & treating facilities. The CO2 segment is focused on the production, transportation and marketing of CO2 to oil fields that use CO2 as a flooding medium for recovering crude oil from mature oil fields to increase production. The Terminals segment engages in the ownership and/or operation of liquids and bulk terminal facilities located throughout the U.S. and portions of Canada that transload and store refined petroleum products, crude oil, chemicals, and ethanol and bulk products, including coal, petroleum coke, fertilizer, steel and ores. The Products Pipelines segment owns and operates refined petroleum products, NGL and crude oil and condensate pipelines that primarily deliver, among other products, gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, propane, crude oil and condensate to various markets. The Kinder Morgan Canada segment is focused on the operation of the Trans Mountain pipeline system that transports crude oil and refined petroleum products from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada to marketing terminals and refineries in British Columbia, Canada and the state of Washington. The company was founded by Richard D. Kinder and William V. Morgan on August 23, 2006 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.
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